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Announcing the Sinatra Centennial Blogathon

Come fly with us and join the Sinatra Centennial Blogathon! As you’re probably aware,
December 12 this year would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. Many celebrations are being staged around the world to mark his Centennial – and now classic movie bloggers can raise a toast too.

Emily of The Vintage Cameo and Judy of the Movie Classics blog are joining forces to hold a blogathon over the birthday weekend, from December 10 to 13, and we would love you to join in.

Although Sinatra is of course best-known as a singer, he also starred in many films, from the 1940s right through to the 70s, and won an Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity.

So there are plenty of subjects to choose from, ranging from films and TV shows Sinatra appeared in to his movie soundtrack songs, his collaborations with other stars such as Gene Kelly and the Rat Pack, phases of his career, events you have been to in your home area, etc. Choose your favourite Sinatra-related idea and do it your way. But, bear in mind, since there are so many potential topics, we are asking please for no duplication.

Please post a comment below or at the Vintage Cameo, or e-mail Emily at em@thevintagecameo.com or Judy at cstmdrama@gmail.com with your chosen topic, giving the name of your blog and its URL. Let us know if you have a preferred posting date, or if not we can assign you one.

That’s great, Crystal – I’m a fan of Judy Garland as well and increasingly like Dean Martin too, so will be very interested to read your piece on the concert. I’ll be over to take a look at your Stanwyck blogathon – she’s one of my favourites so I’m excited about that and want to take part.

Just wanted to say that I’ve now decided on my topic for the blogathon – I’m going to write about Sinatra and Bing Crosby, looking at their friendship and the films they made together, High Society and Robin and the 7 Hoods, as well as Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank. However, if anyone wants to do a more detailed separate piece on any of those that would still be fine – there would be a lot more to say about those films apart from the Frank/Bing angle which I’ll be looking at. :)

May I write about Frank’s fantastic performance on the Suspense episode “To Find Help” (1/18/45)? He’s so good and it’s so creepy. The story is also the basis for the film BEWARE, MY LOVELY. My site is http://www.mildredsfatburgers.com

Hi Judy. What a great idea for a blogathon. Frank Sinatra was one of the main reasons why I fell in love with classic films. :)

I’d like to write about Frank and Gene Kelly, covering the films they did together – “Anchors Aweigh” (1945), “On the Town” (1949) and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1949) – as well as their friendship. Would that be okay? Oh, and I’d like to post my article on December 12, if that’s okay too.

Hi Judy. I would love to do a second post if that’s alright?. I’m going away on the 10th, but I realized that at night I’ll have a lot of time in the hotel to do it, and I can’t think of a better way to spend that time than celebrating Frank’s Birthday. So if it’s alright for me to do two entries, could I also claim “The Judy, Frank & Dean” Concert”?

Hi Beth, not to worry – if you still have time to do your piece in the next two or three days or so, we can still tweet about it and Emily is still adding late pieces into the last day’s posting. Thanks for letting us know! Just let me or Emily know once it is up. Thank you.